On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 02:45:39PM -0700, bruce enlightened us: > new to centos, but i have a few questions... > > i understand that centos is a derivative of rhel, created from the > exact/underluing source files used to create rhel. if this is the case, is > it possible to get the actual source SRPMS for either RHEL, or for CentOS? > > I used to see the source files on the redaht system, but I don't seem to see > them anymore... > Correct, the only changes are what are necessary for legal purposes, or on occasion to make things build correctly. These should be clearly marked with "centos" in the package release, the exception being the kernel packages. Source RPMs are available for RedHat from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/ and CentOS SRPMS are available from http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/ > i'm curious to know what's better, using CentOS, or the latest fedora FC > version... > Depends on what you want. CentOS is much more tested and stable. The disadvantage is that most things are more-or-less "frozen" (with security and bug fixes backported) at certain versions where Fedora often gets the latest and greatest. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263